Under the First Amendment, explicitly yes.

You’re not wrong but, that’s really the trap that many of us on the Left hand fallen for. It takes a long time to build things and make positive changes in the face of resistance from moneyed interests. Leftists refusing to participate in every election, including primaries, is a good part of how we got here in the first place. Non-voters are the largest bloc and, with surveys consistently showing Left-of-Center policies to be popular with the populace overall, it’s safe to assume that the Overton window could be dragged to a better place if they bothered to participate and participate consistently in a calculated manner.

It is absolutely infuriating, indeed, to see all efforts being for nought, though. In less than a year, almost a century of progress has been undone and that would not have been possible if people had been voting stategically. At this point, I’m certain that things will not get appreciably better in my lifetime.

For my purposes (note taking in college), it absolutely lived up to the hype. No x86 laptop that I could find at the time came close to its battery life.

Oh, absolutely. The thing that is weird is being non-x86 hardware and explicitly implementing the translation layer in hardware that has minimal field configurability (they did have the capability of loading something similar to microcode). It makes sense in some ways (performance being a big one) but, seems like it would be vulnerable to potential changes in the external ISA.

Possibly but the CPU was pretty crazy. It used “code morphing” to translate x86 instructions to its internal ISA, something that just seems a bit ridiculous to do at the hardware level.

Would be nice if the law would be enforced on these fucks who continue committing crimes without consequence.

Fujitsu Lifebook P-2046. It was semi-rugged with a magnesium alloy chassis but, the real awesome bit was the Transmeta Crusoe processor. It was super power efficient (~15hr between charges with the extended battery) and performed decently. The thing was really ahead of its time.

100% guaranteed. The US does not have the manufacturing infrastructure for such products as a result of half a century of off-shoring to avoid organized labor.

Possibly. There does seen to be a strong correlation.

To a degree, yes, but there are more defining features, like zero-sum thinking that aren’t necessarily for narcissism.

As others pointed out, there’s major structural issues. There’s also issues with apathy and people buying into the anti-electoralism/accelerationism con with religious ferver.

He’ll get right on it, after infrastructure week.

Nah. If they’re willing to overlook how anti-leftist Russia is, the rest of their work is suspect.

Everyone deserves to feel safe. Except for Nazis, slavers, and the like.

If killing civilians and starting a war makes you euphoric, you’re not a good human being.

That’s why they took hand grenades during the W years. Soldiers were getting pretty sick of fighting for Halliburton.

Like UFOs and cryptids and shit. Yeah…

5. Windows update intentionally bricks GRUB.
6. Delete Windows.

Eh. Conservatism does exist but, it’s never been what it’s claimed to be. It’s all about establishing and enforcing hierarchical power structures in society by any means necessary. Almost universally, the adherents desire to have power over others, so, even if they’re not at the top, they get to be cruel towards their “lessers” and that makes them feel better about themselves. Through the lens of their philosophy, things like hypocrisy are privileges of those higher in the hierarchy with which to taunt their “lessers”.

Additionally, they do not believe in objective reality but, subjective reality that bends to their will (when it doesn’t, they deny the delta and pretend that it does). This applies to morality as well; moral correctness is relative to one’s place in the hierarchy, not their actions (ie supporting a convicted felon, rapist and pedophile is ok because he’s rich and supports hierarchy).

The reason, I think, that the belief system has been able to stick around so long (beyond the propaganda) is that its followers do gain some mental health benefits. They are able to reduce their cognitive load through deference to their rulers and reduce potential for anxiety and depression by avoiding self-reflection and embracing the Just World Fallacy.

It’s pretty much all still in the “theoretical money” stage. The only reason that it’s not popped yet is the ultra wealthy thinking they can use it to replace people and take their wealth.